The highest you can score in a standard game of bowling if your score
in each of the ten frames is required to be a prime number. [Keith]

The sum of the first 229 primesdivides the product of the first 229 primes.

The smallest prime that remains prime when added to its reversal. [Luhn]

Replacing each digit of prime 229 with its square, respectively its cube, results in two new primes (4481 and 88729) with a palindromic difference of 84248. Coincidentally, 229 + 4481 + 88729 is palindromic as well. [De Geest]

Place the White chess pieces as follows: King on a2, Rook
on c6, and Bishop on d5. Place the Black chess pieces as
follows: King on a4, Knight on d3, and a pawn on e3. White
to move, mate in 229. [Kadatch]

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